COMMUNITY STORYTELLING
“Shame dies when stories are told in safe spaces” - Ann Voskamp
WE ALL HAVE A STORY TO SHARE
Crisis Funding and Storytelling build hope in our community. We connect through what we have lived, we can find hope in the triumphs of others, and seeing our own resilience in someone else brings people together. We can end the need for Crisis Funding if through storytelling, we learn from our histories, hold space for all people, and use our voices to create a fabric of support that transcends all that divides us.
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TALK-O-TRUCK (TOT)
The TOT is a mobile recording (audio only) studio. TOT gives people a place to tell the stories of their histories and experience. Through telling our stories we regain agency over experience, self-heal, and build community.
Storytelling creates connections between people where we may not normally find commonality and preserves layers of history that inform our present lives and impact our futures. Our intention is to provide space for underrepresented people to tell their stories, magnifying their voices that are so often unheard.
TOT is available for private, nonprofit, and collaborative community events in the tri-counties. Please CLICK HERE to fill out our inquiry form.
We all have a story to share.
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OURSTORY CONNECTION
Our Story is a place for every Storyteller to feel safe and empowered in sharing stories of their real-life experiences. In order to protect this right, it is important for storytellers to feel like they are in a safe place where they can share without judgement, ridicule, or advice. This requires participation from us all.
"it was writing the truth that set her free..."
Our founder, Virginia, and her late husband John, envisioned a place where people could come and share the stories of their lives. Through storytelling people can build community, claim their truth, self-heal, and write their life's experiences in their own words. In this way each Storyteller is seen, heard, and honored.
'Our experiences are different but our feelings are the same.' - Virginia Benson Wigle